AST 12th Annual Winter Symposium
March 13-16, 2008
Emergence to Convergence:
Management of High Risk Donors and Recipients
Expanded Program! Poster Session! Debate!
Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa
Palm Springs, California
Call For Abstracts
WATCH FOR THE ABSTRACT COLLECTION SITE TO OPEN IN MID SEPTEMBER - DEADLINE IS MID DECEMBER
Plan on submitting your abstracts on emerging technologies or protocols as they relate to controversies in transplantation. Clinical, basic, and translational studies will be considered. Categories include:
- Access to Transplantation
- Consensus Management of High Risk Patients
- Ethics of High Risk Transplantation
- Desensitization approaches
- Wait List Management
- Impact of Allocation Changes (MELD/LYFT)
- Unpublished Clinical Trials with Important Negative Findings
Abstracts will be peer reviewed in blind format. Accepted abstracts will be presented during a moderated poster session. Abstracts will be published in the official meeting program and made available to AST members on the AST web site. You may submit as many abstracts as you wish. The presenting author must register for the AST Winter Symposium.
About The Program
Newly formatted scientific program includes general sessions and breakout sessions covering topics with broad appeal such as:
- Trials, Tribulations and Real Issues of Managing Wait Lists
- MELD to Net Benefit - The Impact of Allocation Changes
- Managing the Pediatric Transplant Recipient
- Identifying and Managing High Risk Solid Organ Recipients - Are We Close to Defining the Standards of Care?
- Desensitization - The Latest Approaches
- Managing Malignancy and Virus Infection in Liver Transplantation
- New Methods to Monitor Immunity
- Managing the High Risk Donor
- New Science in Inflammation, Ischemia-reperfusion Injury and Organ Preservation
- Controversies and Consensus – Optimal Immunosuppression for High Risk Patients
- The Unique Role of Immunity in Lung, Heart and Liver Recipients
- Risks and Ethics in Transplantation
Preliminary Scientific Program
Where We Will Meet
Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa
Palm Springs, California
The Palm Springs desert region is a charming, low-key desert paradise offering world-class recreation, superb natural beauty, and lively arts, culture, and entertainment. Attractions include outdoor tours, museums, art galleries, wildlife and botanical parks or hot air balloon rides.
Enjoy your stay at Rancho Las Palmas in Palm Springs where low lying residences are set within 240 garden acres surrounded by the soaring San Jacinto mountain range in the heart of Palm Springs. Rancho Las Palmas is a gorgeous desert retreat that offers the ideal setting for exploring, learning, and fun:
- Multiple pools featuring a lazy river and water slide
- European spa and brand new fitness center
- Golf and tennis on property
- Directly across from “The River,” a lively entertainment, dining and shopping district
- Four minutes from “El Paseo”, a stellar shopping experience with more than 20 art galleries, excellent restaurants and charming sidewalk cafes
- Four miles from the breathtaking beauty of The Living Desert, a 1,000 acre preserve dedicated to building up, under controlled conditions, populations of various species of desert animals and plants threatened with extinction in the wild state